https://xstemsy.com/xstemsy/categories/the-search/ Recent content in The Search on xstemsy Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us xstemsy Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://xstemsy.com/xstemsy/post/2026/08/the_holography_of_the_bible/ Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://xstemsy.com/xstemsy/post/2026/08/the_holography_of_the_bible/ <p>One of most intriguing things about the Bible is its holographic nature. Writing such a complicated document would be a challenge for an individual author in one time period, but the way it holds together over centuries is astonishing.</p> <p>Unfortunately, while I find this metaphor very interesting, the term &quot;hologram&quot; has taken on a lot of psuedoscientific overtones that I must first take a moment to clear away. The holographs that you see in day-to-day life, such as on your credit card, are the end result of many refinement steps.</p> https://xstemsy.com/xstemsy/post/2026/08/how_do_we_become_good_enough_to_be_able_to_be_in_heaven/ Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://xstemsy.com/xstemsy/post/2026/08/how_do_we_become_good_enough_to_be_able_to_be_in_heaven/ <p>Previously I discussed the problem that as we are now, we are not good enough to live forever. At the end I made an offhanded comment about how we can not fix ourselves. Today I want to substantiate that a bit.</p> <p>CS Lewis once said</p> <blockquote> <p>Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means—the only complete realist.&quot;</p>